172354 - Margins less than zero are incorrectly handled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect, P5)

Description

[Frank Klemm]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529

Margins & Header/Footer:

Entering negative margins (to suppress unwanted columns for instance)
do not work. A margin of "-x inches" is handled as a margin of
"+x inches"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter a negaive margin in "Margins & Header/Footer", for instance -1 inch
2. Compare the result with a setting of +1 inch.

Actual Results:  
border is moved into the wrong direction

Expected Results:  
border is moved to the right direction

Comment 1

[rods (gone)]

Negative margins are not supported, although it may be a minor bug that negative
ones are converted over to positive obnes.

Comment 2

[richard]

If negative margins are not supported, maybe Mozilla should warn users if they
enter such ones before converting them to positive margins.

Comment 3

[richard]

Mozilla 1.2b 2002102605, File / Page Setup, Margins & Header/Footer
Tried to enter negative values, but the box didn't accept "-" so I couldn't
enter negative values.

Is this FIXED?

Comment 4

[rods (gone)]

I think the real bug is that negative values get converted to positive ones. A
neg value should be converted to zero

Comment 5

[Michael Gabriel]

just for the notes, on win32 you simply cant enter a - with 1.8a now 

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

> just for the notes, on win32 you simply cant enter a - with 1.8a now 

same thing on linux (see also comment 3)

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